hay fever preventative injection

[5029]

Has anyone had it that can give me advice about it (not hay fever tablets, just the innoculation). Thanks

[woofgang]

This is old info, I had a course of them about 14 years ago when my hay fever was quite bad. These were desensetising injections, I think about eight, one a week. they injected you with tiny doses of what ever you were allergic to. It wasn't a complete success but it did make a considerable difference to how bad the symptoms were and in my perception, they have never been so bad again. Shortly after I had mine, they were stopped because of the risk of anaphylactic shock (like the nut allergy people can get.) I remember when i had the injections, I had to sit in the GP surgery for 20 mins afterwards presumably so that if I did collapse someone could save my life!!

[5029]

Thanks, but i was looking for information on the injection you get once and it protects you all summer

[d+dwidow]

There's an injection you can have once? I've never heard of that and i've suffered with hayfever all my life. As woofgang said, i had the injections when I was a kid, but i didn't know there were others.

[5029]

Yes i got it as a kid and fancy it again. You get it once and it works immediately for one summer